Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-11-24

keep your own cOunsei, converse
freely ana geniafly on ordinary sub
jects, but on grave personal matters
You should cultivate a careful reti-
cence. If you have important bus
mess projects in hand, keep them
to yourself, or, at most, limit the
knowledge of them to a few trnsty
friends on whose discretion you can
rely, and whose advice and assis-
lance you may need. The practice
of discussing the faults and misfor-
tunes of others. of repeating and
coloring every little word or action,
is pitifully contemplate in the last
degree, and every one indulging in
it should be ostracised from society,
and be considered an alien, the wag
of whose leprous tongue is as dead
ly to character as is the upas to hui
man life. Guard your tongue, speak
well of others or say nothing, and
no mans character will be damned
by your thoughtlessness.
Putting up stove pipe has been
the order of the day in the past
three weeks, and suffering male hui
manly has not escaped the usual
in~fiiction of wounds, and the vic
Tins the exhibition of their lamb
like meekness. One man came
tearing down the streets, hailess
and coatless, with his hands all
skinned up, rushed into Peterson's
drug store, and while they were
putting several yards of court plas-
ter on his hands the doctor took
something less than a ton of sheet
iron from under his finger nails.
Another burned his hand in at
tempting to lift a red hot stove with
the pipe attached--his wife says his
remarks were very eloquent and pa
thetic, and that they kept growing
patheticker and patheticker as he
realized more fully what an internal
fool he had made of himself. An
other got up on a high stool, after
the pipe was up, to adjust and
straighten a joint, but he got a
little too far off, and in reaching
over he lost his balance, the stool
backwards and outwards and he
forwards and downwards over the
stove into a pile of stew PANS and
fiat-lrons, erecting Il mansard roof
over his eye. Phoenix like, he
arose from the ruins and exclaiming
goddelmightyl kicked the whole
business out of doors. Another,
who cavorted around a little too
lively to suit The tender companion
of his joys and sorrows, run against
a broom handle and broke the
bridge of his nose. 1t is a mercy
putting up stove pipe comes but
once a year.
Our citizens made a step in the
right direction when they contrib
uted to the establishment of a mill
here. Already have our business
men reaped five to ten fold more
than they invested in the enter
prise, from the trade they receive
that would never be heard of if it
were not for the mill. As a manu-
featuring enterprise it is proving,
not only a big thing for the town,
but for the farmer as well. Now,
again, have our business men and
citizens done a wise thing in taking
stock in a creamery in this city. 1t
is a manufacturing enterprise that
brings more ready cash into the
county and distributes it more
equally than almost any other one
thing you can name. Every farmer
that has a COW can be getting cash
every day for his cream. 1t en-
courages the raising of cattle and
hogs--cows become valuable and
hogs are easily raised, because all
the skinned milk on the farm is
their legitimate pray. This cash
the farmer receives for his cream is
paid to the merchant for dry goods
and groceries, and thus a reciprocity
of interest is at once created between
the two. A town that can boast of
a half dozen manufacturing inter-
ests that leaves money in the hailds
of the laboring nan and farmer, is
emphatically, not only lucky but
prosperous.
A subscriber writing to US
wants to know sswhat is the best
way to get rid Of the chicken
worml" This is a serious question
in domestic economy, and one that
we have often laid awake nights
thinking about. A great many
plans have suggested themselves to
our mind only to be ANONYMOUSLY
relegated TO a back seat. Finally,
however, we were struck by an idea
lit didn't hurt us very mueh-a
feasible plan, and one We think will
work admirably. Take the worm,
carefully blindfold him, and back
him under a fourteen hundred
pound pile drive, and let 'er drop.
We stand ready to bet high that if
our directions are implicitly fol-
lowed in this matter, it will ever
lastingly salisate the worm. An
other plan is to back the chicken
under and knock the worms by
wholesale, but this plan offers no
opportunity to work up enthusiasm
like the gradual process Indicated
to take each worm separately and
cruelty him in the manner above
stated. Anything pertaining to
poultry or agriculture this paper is
way up in-and "don't you for.
get it,"
The following is the code pen
atty for setting out fires:
SEC. 459-Eyery person who neg
.ligently or carelessly sets on fire, or
causes to be set on fire, any woods,
marshes, prairies, or who, having
set the same on fire, or caused it to
done, negligently or c~arelessly, or
without full precautlon or efforts to
prevent, permits it to spread be.
yond his control, shall, upon con-
vlction, be fined not exceeding 500
and not less than SO, and shall be
liable to. injured parties for all
damages o~ccasioned thereby. One
half Of such fine shall, when collec-
ted, go to the informer.
John Seyery shook hands with
the boys yesterday, said "good bye
and started for a winters sojourn in